Marhofn 294.17 - May 2015

Baglog bonanza:

Pete Ridges (+27=447)

Highlights of 2014:

• In June on Mwdwl-eithin I finally completed my first section of RHB. It was section 30C, all eleven Marilyns, only 15 years after I bought the book. Actually I had climbed Moel Famau in 1965, so it took me 49 years to complete the section.
• I am not really trying to complete the Tumps in any counties, but I did complete my first two counties, Liverpool and Wirral. And then I left Wirral, where I had spent most of my life, and moved to Edinburgh.
• I climbed Marilyns in seven hill groups from the More RHB book that I had not been to before, from Bennachie to Walbury Hill, giving me a start in 124 sections out of 155.
• I started climbing Munros again - 96 to go.
• My first ever bike-Marilyn - Carn a'Chlamain, via Glen Tilt - I should have started doing this ages ago.
• I finally logged my hills on the hill-bagging website - should have done this ages ago.
• I climbed my 1000th Tump, Binny Craig, West Lothian. It is like a mini-Arthur's Seat, the sort of hill that gives Tumps a good name. Unlike the five Tumps of Wirral and Liverpool.
• I started going out with the Ramblers - first walk being Beinn Dearg, the Glen Lyon Corbett.
• I went on a winter skills course at Glenmore Lodge.

Targets for 2015:

• Start camping in the hills again.
• Visit a Marilyn in every group of Mark Jackson's book.
• Complete the Munros, Tops and Furths.
• Visit the unclimbed or unattempted Tump, Hump and Marilyn nearest to my home . This might seem trivial, but it will be never-ending.